Guyon is a

French French may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France ** French people, a nation and ethnic group ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Arts and media * The French (band), ...

surname.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 85.7% of all known bearers of the surname ''Guyon'' were residents of

France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan ...

(frequency 1:4,367), 4.8% of the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

(1:427,011), 2.4% of

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun ...

(1:87,614), 1.7% of the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

(1:327,626) and 1.1% of

Gabon Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...

(1:9,351). In

, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:4,367) in the following regions:Guyon surname distribution
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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...

(1:1,012) * 2.

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...

(1:1,802) * 3.

Centre-Val de Loire Centre-Val de Loire (; ,In isolation, ''Centre'' is pronounced . ) or Centre Region (, ), as it was known until 2015, is one of the eighteen Regions of France, administrative regions of France. It straddles the middle Loire Valley in the interior ...

(1:2,925) * 4.

Brittany Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duch ...

(1:3,370) * 5.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (; AURA) or ; or ; . is a Regions of France, region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. The new region came into e ...

(1:3,951) * 6.

Corsica Corsica ( , , ; ; ) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the Regions of France, 18 regions of France. It is the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, fourth-largest island in the Mediterranean and lies southeast of the Metro ...

(1:4,330)

People

Adrien Guyon Adrien Léopold Marie Guyon (22 July 1866 – 21 May 1926) was a French fencer. He competed in the individual foil and épée events at the 1900 Summer Olympics The 1900 Summer Olympics (), today officially known as the Games of the ...

(1866–?), French Olympic fencer *

Alexandre Guyon Alexandre Guyon (1829–1905) was a French actor and singer who starred in numerous theatrical production A theatrical production is any work of theatre, such as a staged play, musical, comedy or drama produced from a written book or script. T ...

(1829–1905), French actor *

Isabelle Guyon Isabelle Guyon (; born August 15, 1961) is a French-born researcher in machine learning known for her work on support-vector machines, artificial neural networks and bioinformatics. She is a Chair Professor at the University of Paris-Saclay. Guy ...

(born 1961), French-born researcher in machine learning * James Guyon Jr. (1778–1846), politician and cavalry officer from Staten Island, New York *

Jean Guyon Jean Guyon ''du Buisson'' (Bapt. September 18, 1592 – May 30, 1663) was the patriarch of one of the earliest families to settle on the North shore of New France's St. Lawrence River. Guyon made his living as a master mason and, according ...

du Buisson (1592–1663), master mason and early settler of Quebec, Canada *

Jean Casimir Félix Guyon Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (21 July 1831 – 2 August 1920) was a French surgeon and urologist born in Saint-Denis, Ile-Bourbon (Réunion). He studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1858. He was appointed ''médecin des hôpitaux' ...

(1831–1920), French urologist at the University of Paris *

Jean-Jacques Guyon Jean-Jacques Guyon (21 December 1932 – 20 December 2017) was a French equestrian and Olympic champion from Paris. He won an individual gold medal in eventing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, cap ...

(1932–2017), French Olympic equestrian *

Jeanne Guyon Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon, ; 13 April 1648 – 9 June 1717) was a French Christian accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church. Madame Guyon was impris ...

(1648–1717), French Christian mystic *

Joe Guyon Joseph Napoleon "Big Chief" Guyon (Anishinaabe: ''O-Gee-Chidah'', translated as "Big Brave"; November 26, 1892 – November 27, 1971) was an American Indian from the Ojibwa tribe (Chippewa) who was an American football and baseball player and c ...

(1892–1971), American professional football player and coach * Lionel Guyon, French Olympic equestrian * Marie-Therese Guyon Cadillac (1671–1746), early settler of Detroit, Michigan *

Maxime Guyon Maxime Guyon (born 7 May 1989 in Laval, Mayenne) is a French flat racing Horse racing is an equestrianism, equestrian performance activity, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) ov ...

(born 1989), French jockey * Maximilienne Guyon (1868–1903), French painter and illustrator *

Olivier Guyon Olivier Guyon (born 1975) is a French-American astronomer. He is an astronomer at the Steward Observatory of the college of science and professor in the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences, both of The University of Arizona. He is the SCEx ...

(born 1975), French-American astronomer * Pascal Guyon, French musician *

René Guyon René Charles Marie Guyon (; ; 27 May 1876 – 1963) was a French jurist, best known for having written upon the topic of sexual ethics. René Guyon was born at Sedan, Ardennes, and was involved in writing legal codes for Siam (present Thailand) ...

(1876–1963), French jurist and sexual ethicist *

Richard Guyon Richard de Beaufré comte de Guyon (1813 – 12 October 1856) was a British-born Hungarian soldier, general in the Hungarian revolutionary army and Ottoman pasha (Kurshid Pasha). Biography Early life He was born at Walcot, near Ba ...

(1813–1856), general in the Hungarian revolutionary army * Sir Guyon, fictional hero in Edmund Spencer's ''The Faerie Queene'' (1590)

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